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Toronto Sports Media Radio Ratings
So, my early holiday present to you all is the most recent radio ratings for the 2 sports radio stations in Toronto.
PPM PPM PPM PPM
Aug. 29- May 30-Aug 28 Aug. 29- May 30-Aug 28
Nov. 27 Nov. 27
M- Fri. 6a-9a
Fan 590 7.2 7.1 11.8 12.5
TSN 1050 0.8 1.1 0.6 1.6
M- Fr. 9a-12p
Fan 590 9.3 10 14.9 12.5
M- Fr. 12p-1p
Fan 590 4.2 8.9 6.7 11.8
TSN 1050 0.6 0.9 5 4.8
M- Fr. 1p-4p
Fan 590 5.7 6.4 8.1 7.4
TSN 1050 0.6 1 2.3 4.1
Fan 590 10.1 8.2 14.8 10.1
*The above chart is a brief overview of share figures from the latest PPM 2016 Numeris release courtesy of David Bray, David Bray of Bray & Partners Communications [email protected]
Blah blah blah, the system sucks. Blah, blah, blah it's the only system we have.
A friend whom I've known for years (and is not conversely an old friend) always told me about these "books" that you can't look at one standing alone ,that you must instead look at trends.
Never before has it been more apparent that you need to look at this as only as a snapshot because it's the most muddling book I've seen in a long time.
Couple of things to keep in mind:
We are comparing the most recent book August 29th – November 27th to the previous one, May 30 – August 28th.
The earlier book wrapped up the Leafs season, had all the draft frenzy, free agent day, the Raptors playoff run and a big chunk of the Blue Jays season. There were few Blue Jays day games in that session that would have impacted the book during working hours.
The new book includes the tail end of the Blue Jays regular season, the playoff run, the World Cup of Hockey, Maple Leafs training camp and the start of their season and same for the Raptors.
Here's some random thoughts:
I am surprised that the Fan morning show got no bump whatsoever in the key demo from book to book. A pt. 1 increase is stunning (7.1-7.2)
The .7 drop for the Blair show is even more stunning to me in the key demographic (reminder that Blair and Brunt are on 9-11, baseball central 11-12) 10-9.3 Where did people go?
What I don't get is the huge jump in Blair's number in the younger demo. Why were younger people suddenly the biggest audience share either station had (14.9 from a 12.5)
Have people misinterpreted the effect of the wins/losses on the market given the slaughter the fan saw at lunch time ?? Wow! what happened here? (8.9 – 4.2 older) and (11.8 – 6.7 younger)
Andrew Walker had a nice jump in the younger demo from 7.4 to an 8.1
Mccown had a nice jump in both demo's as Bob was engaged on both the Jays front and the early Leafs prospects.
The TSN numbers again barely make a dent.
Summers are clearly a total wasteland for TSN, as the entire listening audience is Jays focused and least so far TSN has no answer.
Clearly, based on numbers alone the TSN morning show is not playing well with listeners in either demographic (see first note on the system) I can't imagine after a long, successful career this is the type of reception Landsberg was expecting.
I still don't understand how the morning show is losing it's Blue Jays fans in the am. How is it that the morning drive takes it big time on the chin from the Blair show? How much bigger could the Blair show be with a more listened to morning show.
No, these numbers do NOT include those of us who listen via podcast.
The Overdrive drop is not concerning UNLESS it continues in the next book. If the 1.5 drops to like a 1.0 there is trouble. Real trouble.
That is all for now, I am sure your comments (please no more about the TSN signal or JEff Blair's voice) will stir some more thoughts and debate.
Happy Tuesday.
The big drop off on 590 in the noon timeslot from summer (when it was Baseball Central) to fall (when it was Hockey Central) is interesting………….I guess this proves that Kevin Barker is more popular than guys like Daren Millard, Colby Armstrong and Todd Hlushko
Hard to believe that Hockey Central can't do better than that given a popular lead in (Blair Show) and relatively weak competition (Leafs Lunch)
'please no more about the TSN signal or JEff Blair's voice'
Good luck with that.
Interesting to see all the complaining about the Fan on here, yet book after book they dominate. At some point reasonable and responsible people need to look at the numbers and see that TSN can't hold a candle to the Fan. Even the awful morning show dominates. The 'he sucks now' Bob McCown is killing it.
At some point the two years of complaining about the Fan and giving a pass to TSN must come to an end, no?
TSN's mid-day schedule is a wasteland. It's surprising they don't sink more money into hiring compelling and marketable hosts for those time slots – Blair and Walker are being handed great ratings on a silver platter.
TSN's morning show isn't perfect but it's still far better than Blundell on 590 (and better than Mike Richards' show as well). Surprised the ratings aren't higher given how comically horrible 590's morning show is. Biggest issue with 1050's show is the lack of chemistry between Naylor and Lansberg – listening to the chemistry of Overdrive (and the old Brady/Walker show for that matter) compared to their show is like night and day. I still far prefer to it to 590 and it's my go-to show in the morning, sports or otherwise.
Overdrive remains the best show on Toronto sports radio, provided all 3 regulars are in that day. Absolutely love the banter between the hosts and Hayes is a great interviewer. The feed off each other better than any show I've heard in ages. It's fun and easy listening. Issue is, when big non-hockey news breaks, I automatically default to Mccown to hear what he has to say. He has much more authority on non-hockey topics, and although it's not an issue for Overdrive day-to-day like some on this site make it out to be, it can be at times. Still a great show that I listen to daily and I'm happy about the extra 2 hours TSN gave this crew.
Where does TSN turn if Overdrive becomes a flop for them as the slippage in ratings suggest might happen? The Leafs Lunch schtick can't be carried over to that time slot. Nor can the hockey-centric theme, which quite frankly is completely exposing Noodles and to a lesser extent O'Neill.
The gap between the new Leafs Lunch and Hockey Central for the 18-34 demo is really tightening.
TSN might be better served playing dead air between 9 and 12. Cauz is decent (I use that term loosely), but Wheeler is enough to turn anybody away.
I was listening to the Lebatard podcast. He was saying how his show started on a new Miami station, going up against an established sports radio incumbent (WQAM). He said they overtook the WQAM in a couple years, which is really rare in sports radio. And he attributed it to his show being unique, unconventional, 'dangerous' programming that don't typically hear on sports radio. And if you ever catch Lebatard, it makes sense…it's very different sports radio. They don't take sports seriously, they make fun of 'hot takes' and sports radio in general, they get deep into social issues like race/homosexuality/politics.
Here it is 5(?) years in and TSN hasn't made a dent in any way. TMaybe TSN needs to take a page from Lebatard's book and look at doing sports radio differently and unconventionally. And not just in a way where bros are talking about Brazzers or whatever. Right now they just seem to be doing what The Fan is doing but not quite as well.
Didn't the noon slot go from Baseball Central to Hockey Central around Labour Day? That would explain why the two books were so off, they were different shows.
Overdrive gets a better share while Noodles & O-dog were at the cottage all summer than when they were on the air. Go figure.
Reply to Daniel
It depends on what TSN's motivations are. In many ways, TSN Radio is just another platform to push their TV programing, so are they motivated to 'push the limit'?
Its pretty damning that they haven't even made a small move towards the Fan, if this was a stand alone station I wonder if they'd even be in operation right now. They have shown nothing to suggest that they have the tools to turn it around and to this point, what faith could anyone have in their management?
Its too bad, I still prefer TSN's on air TV product, but it has not translated at all to radio.
Objectively, TSN's signal is worse and must cost less and they pay their talent less. They must see some value in using radio to promote their television product. So their return on investment is comparable to 590's? If not, then not sure why they exist. Perhaps 1050 is losing money or breaks even and Bell justifies it because 1050 is just one of eight TSN radio stations across the country.
Reply to yaz
'please no more about the TSN signal'
' TSN's signal is worse'
Called it 😉
Thanks for the read. I can't believe TSN is still around, no other reason other than Rogers had a all sports station . But how much longer only they really know. These numbers are a true embarrassment.
Some point-form thoughts on these ratings:
1. Don't know how to guess at how demoralizing it is at 1050, if you really cared about it, put a bunch of weeks in doing shows, and know so few people are listening. Either that, or there's a few people feeling quite fortunate to be able to speak into a microphone every day for money and they're just hoping the numbers aren't as humilating to the bosses as you would think they would be.
2. Nothing more needs to be said about the 9am show and whatever they do before Overdrive. New people are needed. That stands whether "Makko" comes back or not. He was an instant dial-turner for me when he was on with Cybulski or on his own. Get people that have done it before and hope it catches fire.
3. Naylor. Not sure whether others feel the same. But it ain't happening and never was going tgo and never will. This isn't his thing. 2-3 years in afternoon drive, now over (about?) a full year in morning drive, and no one has tuned in despite lots of promotion at the ACC or wherever. If you want to do right by Landsberg, end this partnership and move Naylor to a different part of day where he might be a better fit. At least people write about what Landsberg says on here.
4. That's a really interesting observation that more people listened in the summer to Overdrive than the fall when hockey was back on and you had a best-vs-best tournament in the city. I am a Hayes fan, I am a O'Neill fan. I despise hearing McLennan's voice and if he's there, I'm way, way, way less likely to listen.
5. The Fan. That is utterly a gut-punch to have lower ratings for your morning show during the Blue Jays playoffs than you did in the summer, when Blundell would have taken alot of vacay time or in the spring when the season was just starting. And it's obviously way down from last year's playoffs. It isn't exactly an elephant in the room. It was a huge mistake and people have already paid for it. Now, the ratings will be even softer over the winter and probably the spring also. I don't listen. The people who write on this site don't listen. No one I know listens with any consistency. Lots of complaining about shows because it's what guys do and I moved to Toronto in the late 90s when Derringer and Marsden, then Landry, then Stellick, then eventually Brady and Lang did it. All far preferred. All more professional. The Andrew krystal thing was terrible, but it only lasted a few months. It feels like Dean's been on the air forever but I trained myself very early on in my commute to not even bother checking it out. I would just get mad, or even worse, bored. The show just has nothing going for it, and in an era when Blair and McCown, guys way older than me -38 – -are delivering good ratings and good shows. Surely, anyone can see this and Rogers should see fit to repair it and make their customers happy again.
6. A lot of Bob retirement talk has been here before. Why would he? Is this as well as he's done in a long time? People seem to only complain about co-hosts and not him on here.
7. Greg Brady. When is his deal up with Rogers? Can he do no work for the other station even if he doesn't sign a contract? I ask because that's just such an obvious move for TSN to make. I will confess to being a fan of Brady and Walker but couldn't listen much when they replaced Tim and Sid who I liked equally, I'd say. I did run into Brady at my daughter's cross-country meet in Pickering. He couldn't have been nicer, and seemed happy with the paid time off (I would be also) and I gave him a good opportunity to complain about Dean's show or Rogers or whatever and he wouldn't take it. Said he understood the business well enough and may have needed the change anyway and said he loved his time there. I bring this up not to embarrass him, but he's too good to sit out for very long after his severance ends, but he'd be pretty motivated to get to 1050 and go against Blundell. If I'm The Fan, how can I let that happen unless Dean has another couple years? Just speculating.
8. Damien Cox. Not a huge fan but I give him credit and the Fan credit. It's the best match for McCown in years, since Brunt, and Cox seems a little more engaged even, given Brunt seemed bored by the end of most of McCown's antics anyway.
Reply to JamesM
I agree – having Cox be the cohost has worked out surprisingly well.
Also – yeah. Brady should be a no brainer for TSN. With the numbers TSN has they might as well start from scratch from the morning show up to 4pm.
NefCanuck
Here's the thing that I think really sinks TSN Radio, the inability of the mothership (Bell) to realize, accept and try to grow alternate methods for listeners to consume the content that they are creating. The Fan pushes podcasts, online listening, hell even Sportsnet NOW
TSN 1050 is lucky if their *conventional* AM signal reaches even half of the number of potential listeners and so should be trying harder than even the Fan to push the new media angle.
Reply to Justin
Agreed. I was a diehard McCown listener, for years. I find Damien Cox to be annoying (if I want to hear politics, I'll tune into another station). So. 1050 got my ears on the drive home. I really enjoy Overdrive. Laugh out loud at least once, every listen. Ray Ferraro is must listen radio. He is well spoken (the anti-Kypreos) and when he and O-Dog, relate hockey anecdotes, I don't want Ferraro's sequence to end. I for one, hope their ratings increase, for I would miss this show.
Seguaro
Regarding Greg Brady – I was listening to him and Walker one afternoon when he went on a cringe worthy rant about how superior their ratings were to TSN and added numerous incendiary comments about the rival network. It was so over the top that it was embarrassing. Sure enough the next day he assumed the mea culpa position but I couldn't help thinking that he had permanently burned a future bridge with the competition.
torontosportsmedia(@torontosportsmedia)
Reply to Anthony
Hi Anthony. I can't speak for everyone who comments, but I think you are painting with a pretty broad brush. I have written too many times to count that McCown, for example is the best on air when it's a topic he is interested in.
I think people are passionate about the media and that comes across in their comments. Having said that I don't think we will ever see time when everyone is totally happy with hosts at a station or writers at an outlet.
Thanks Justin. While I may not agree with all of your comments, I respect them nontheless.
Reply to Roy
Thanks Roy.
Hi Pete:
I don't think the OD ratings are going to continue to plunge. I was stating it would be alarming if they do. Leafs Lunch has certainly caught up to HCAN with the younger audience. It's surprising to say the least. Curious why you think that is.
Thanks Daniel:
While not as obvious as a podcast, I think TSN 1050 has tried to go a little bit unconventional. I think they should continue to be un-fan590 in attempt to gain a different audience. Similarly, I wonder if the Fan shouldn't be looking at the other stations in the market, non sports stations to see what they can do to steal more audience.
Reply to Mike V
Im pretty sure Baseball central was on from 11-12. HC started on Sept 6.
Reply to torontosportsmedia
Baseball Central was on at noon from July to Labour Day.
Reply to Mike S
Thanks Mike S.
Baseball Central was on at noon from July to Labour Day. The new book started August 29th. Baseball central then moved to 11am.
Good point Anthony.
Reply to mario
True, the numebrs are bad. The question is how much are they selling ads for and is anyone buying them.
Great post James M.
So here's my question for you: If you could build two radio lineups, one at TSN and one at the Fan what would they look like?
FAN590
5:30 Blundell & Co. (anyone but Rusic)
9:00 Blair
BC Blair/Barker
HC Marek/Colby/MacLean
1:00 Walker
4:00 Bob (eventually Friedman)
TSN1050
5:30 Brady/rotating co-hosts
9:00 Cabbie
LL Andi/Poulin/(recently retired player)
1:00 Scott Macarthur
4:00 Hayes/O/Beirness
If these numbers are anywhere near accurate (and I've always had my doubts about radio ratings), then I'm convinced you could put Dan "The Man" Levitan (from Good Morning Vietnam fame) as host of TheFan590 morning show and he would win the ratings. I'm not sure what a Fan590 morning show listener is….it certainly isn't somebody who craves intelligent sports conversation in the morning. The anchor on the TSN morning show is Landsberg. Too many cringeworthy moments trying to be funny when he isn't, and he's too hyper. Scotty Mac and Naylor or even Hayes and Naylor in the AM would be really good.
On this blog we (me included) frequently comment on the on-air talent in both positive and negative ways. We attribute ratings to the ability or lack thereof of said talent. For me, the biggest reason for the disparity in ratings is simply branding. The Fan is an established brand. It was the first station to do this and as a result will always have a leg up on TSN. The best TSN can hope for to improve on their numbers. Oh, I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but TSN's signal is also a factor. After all would, you watch a TV station that kept fading out for no apparent reason???
Just as Pepsi came after Coke, the initial product (if done right) will always be the big house on the block. To this day, no one ever orders a "Rum and Pepsi" ….
Reply to Antonio
Your not wrong after year 1, 2 and 3, but were what, almost 6 years in and they continue to make zero gains. Not expecting them to win, but make progress, to this point there hasn't been any of it, and no reason to believe that there will be.
You're right, they need to keep improving. Reasons for not improving likely are the signal issue and the fact men in their 40s & 50s (their main demo) are creatures of habit. Once we find a product or service we like, we stick with it ("if it aint broke, dont fix it").
The best they can hope hope for is to attract young male listeners – who have never listen to the Fan other than for a game broadcast.
Jonas Siegel's take on the Cavaliers vs The Raptors: 'The problem, is like, Cleveland's too good and they're too much better. They're too much better than the rest of the east.' Overdrive, Dec 13, 4 mins left in Hour 1 Podcast. The signal on 1050's Podcast is great.
You call Cox more engaged, but 90% of his non-guest conversations with Bob are about meaningless (their latest golf game) crap. THAT IS NOT GOOD RADIO!!!!!!!
MIKE, I MUST INSIST YOU START CHECKING THE IP ADDRESS OF COMMENTERS THAT SAY THEY LIKE COX.
They are ALWAYS names I have never seen before he became co-host. I suspect you will find the IP address comes from Sportsnet…
Mike, I hate having to suggest this but…here we are….
I honestly believe many of the commenters praising Cox lately are Sportsnet shills. They are almost always names that are new to this site. I suspect an IP address check will reveal an interesting trend among those commenters…….
PTS vs Overdrive: The drop in Overdrive ratings is not surprising. The show has lost something. It's the best show on TSN BUT only during 4 to 6 pm. So during TWO HOURS after 9 am, 1050 offers listeners something consistently better than the FAN.
The 6 pm hour on Overdrive often feels like the guys are done and just want to go home. The co-hosts also have TV duties so the 6 pm hour usually gets off to a choppy start. I think the 6 pm slot needs a consistent guest like Ferraro that pulls in listeners and holds them. I also think O'Dog is a little bored. He hasn't had his usual edge in some time. Meanwhile, the FAN trots out thoroughbred guests every day in this slot and the ratings don't lie.
Bob seems to be more engaged this fall than he has in some time. The show is often very good, although his plug for his Tragically Hip wine earlier this week was the worst thing I've heard on the FAN in some time.
Blundell vs Naylor and Landsberg: I think Landsberg/Naylor is consistently better than the FAN from 7-9 am. Dreger is solid, Breakfast Club roundtable (Tues + Fridays) and the range of other outstanding guests keep you from thinking about the poor chemistry between the two hosts. Even they don't seem to like each other. At least once per week, Landsberg and Naylor manage to avoid each other. And the show is better when it's Naylor and Simmons or Landsberg and Cauz.
JB vs Cauz+Wheeler: Blair easily beats Cauz + Wheeler. But Roger Lajoie with a cold is better than Cauz and Wheeler. The show is dirt and requires an overhaul.
[email protected] vs Leafs Lunch: Hockey Central beats Leafs Lunch only because Petrillo doesn't work as a host. It's not because of her gender. It's because she's not funny, her opinions are weak and her co-hosts are dull. The show also needs better guests/producer. Hockey Central is ready to be beaten. Mallard is a TV-only-in-small-doses guy. He tries too hard to be funny on [email protected] or find segues but it rarely works. Shannon returned last week and I have no words. Kypreos still can't form cohesive sentences. Hlushko has a voice that is far more grate than great. TSN just needs to be a little better and it wins this slot.
Walker vs McCarthur/Hogan: Um, TSN seems to have conceded this slot to the FAN. Scotty Mac for three hours is too much Scotty Mac. In his case less is more. I also think Overdrive doesn't get much of an audience carryover from his show. Walker, although not my taste, is clearly a superior talent to any afternoon talker on 1050. That said, he would be well served by a co-host. But then maybe the show becomes too good for an afternoon slot. Walker may be worth plucking for TSN, especially if he were to be reunited with Brady on a morning show (which could move Naylor to mid-mornings and see Landsberg shipped off to TSN Winnipeg).
Reply to MjwW
Do you hate to suggest it?
What's wrong with just liking someone who holds Bob McCown to task for things he says? He's the reason why Bob has been more engaged because he's forcing Bob to be more thoughtful with what he says. I think the authors of the site mention how better it is, are they 'Rogers Schills' as well? Damien Cox is awful at twitter, he was bad on Toronto Mike's radio and not good on CBc, but he's found a niche and he's good at it, no more, no less.
Why can't we just have good dialog here? Why does it always come down to 'anyone who disagrees with my view is a shill'? Its old and tired.
Reply to Brian
Very interesting points re: Overdrive vs. PTS. You make a very good point about the 6:00pm hour. It's funny, whenever I download podcasts I always look to the 4:00pm hour of Overdrive first and the 6:00pm hour of PTS first. Whereas PTS tends to have the best guests and most interesting discussions during the big 6:00 hour, Overdrive seems to come flying out of the gate and loses steam after Ray's interview is over. It's partly because of co-hosts having sometimes TV duties after 6:00, and partly because the banter I enjoy usually comes most at the top of the show, but your observation that the 6:00 hour "feels like the guys are done and just want to go home" is right on the money.
Your comments about TSN 1050's morning show also hit the nail on the head. Still way better than 590, but a lot of improvement to be had. Chemistry issues are plaguing a show with two hosts who otherwise tend have solid and well-informed opinions. I'd like 1050 to move Naylor to a different slot and try Bob Mackowycz with Lansberg. I recall them saying on-air they're good friends off-air and Maco's interview spots on the morning show have been quite entertaining with some obvious chemistry between him and Lansberg. It'd be a marked improvement IMO.
Agreed. I used to not be fan of Cox in his prior co-hosting stint because he was sharing the duties with the far superior Brunt. It was always a bit of a letdown when I heard Damian as opposed to Brunt when I flipped on the show. But now than Brunt has been jettisoned, Cox is FAR better than Reid, Shannon, and whoever else they've trotted out there.
As an aside, Arash Madani is the best substitute co-host I've heard in a long time. Blair should stay in his time-slot and god help us if Joey Vendetta is substituting for Bob. They guy sounds like he belongs as the weekend afternoon host of a metaphorical "104.3 THE GAME – JOCK TALK SPORTS RADIO" in South Carolina, not PTS.
Let's be clear: I don't like Damien Cox in general. He's arrogant. He doesn't treat "little people" well. And he has strange eyebrows. BUT if you give me the choice between Cox or John Shannon or Ken Reid or Brad Faye, I will choose Cox each time. He stands up to Bob and makes reasonable arguments. His voice is good for radio. And his experience as a columnist also helps. Would I prefer Brunt? Sure. But Cox had proven to be better than expected, which could be in part because he knows this is his last chance at SN.
Replacements for Bob? Note to PD: Please stay away from Jeff Blair. He's somewhat good in small doses but that's not enough. His voice is not an easy listen and he has trouble forming an argument in short order. Friedman/Madani would be an excellent combination.
Reply to Jeffrey
Cabbie? It would be three hours of whatever hugging a professional athlete sounds like.
After a passionate argument about getting rid of hazing in sports, led most vigorously by O'Neill who admitted he had experienced some things he wouldn't disclose – I caught the 6 pm hour of Dec. 13 Overdrive on TV. Open the hour with Hayes alone at their three mics talking NFL with Trent Dilfer of ESPN. 6:10 PM O'Neill strolls in and sits far screen right sipping a coffee. It's as if the producer or director realized how odd this looked and quickly cut ( too late ) to a single shot on Hayes – then back to the uncomfortable wide shot. O'Neill doesn't say a word until the interview ends 5 minutes later. Absolutely a dead 15 mins of TV and radio. When Hayes is alone talking NFL with himself or anyone, it's just a droning monotone deadness. Bring in two or three other guys and talk about a missed goalie interference call (4 pm hour today) and suddenly everyone is engaged and engaging.
Overdrive is my favourite Toronto sports radio show. If Wilner was reviewing it, he'd say 'it's too early'. It's a work in progress. The NFL talk on the show seems forced on them and their delivery feels like it.
5:30 – Tim and Sid (their schtick would work way better in the AM)
9:00 Blair/Brunt
HC Marek/Friedman/Kypreos
1:00 Walker/(new talent) – someone we haven't heard, need fresh voices here, perhaps a female/minority
4:00 Bob/Cox
As with others I am no fan of Damian Cox. I find him to be an arrogant, self-rightous, self-important petty little man who, like Steve Simmons, thinks he's a bigger deal in the Toronto Sprts scene than he really is. I aslo find his constant soapboxing and grandstanding on the women in the hockey hall of fame issue to be pandering at best and disingenious at worst. I truly think he's doing it less on the issue and more so when it does happen he can cry out "see, see what I did? It was me who got them to change it. Praise me for this and all my greatness and put me in as a builder".
That all said, when he came back to PTS after his CBC stint I was surprised to see him humbled and even grateful to be there. Maybe he realized he's only on PTS because the Rogers beancounters think it's better vaule to have him somewhere rather than sitting at home on the rest of that conract. Whatever it is his return was a breath of fresh air, despite the signs of the arrogance returning, and as others have noted he's taking Bob to task on many issues with his return as well as others, namely forcing John Shannon to out himself as an NHL shill, in his role of Co-host that even the great and mighty Brunt was hesitant to do at times.
I'm both surprised and glad you left Blundell in the morning spot. Surprised because I think it is evident that Dean and sports talk are not a good mix and I think the show is really bad.
Glad because it does lead in to a point I want to make about the show, which is that I thought that leaving the "& Co." in the title of the show it gave management at least one bullet to use to shake things up. Nearly two years in to the show and I am genuinely shocked they have stuck with Rusic. On his own, when he was with Sammut, or when he is now with Bastl or Ennis, Rusic is tolerable and relatively good. But acting like a puppy dog to Blundell whereas Blundell needs someone to bring the best out of him, Rusic's not the person for the job. I figured by now they would have tried at least something to boost ratings and salvage something out of Blundell's hefty salary that isn't delivering results worthy of such salary.
That's pretty rich. Almost the first positive things ever written about Cox in the history of these, at times, brutal, comment pages, and some anonymous dude ripping Sportsnet, no less, thinks people's IP addresses should be investigated. Irony, that's what that is.
In fact, almost universally, and i agree with this, the comment is "Not a huge fan of Cox, seems like a jerk, but far preferable with Bob to Ken Reid or John Shannon" and without question, Reid and Shannon have been the most universally-ripped people on this website, and it's because they're not very good at radio. But somehow that is considered a Damien Cox lovefest.
No, it shows that when something is awful, and a radio program director actually makes a slight touch-up or improvement, people are happier. Andrew Krystal was on the Fan morning show for however long he was on, then he wasn't and people stopped complaining about it for a couple years anyway.
Ron MacLean replaces George Strombo and people stop complaining but they'll complain about MacLean soon enough again anyway.
As for the ratings listed here, some of it is quite interesting. No question I'd bet it's against the grain for a radio station to have a team in the MLB playoffs and not see a bump from its summer or spring.
TSN is a mess. The compliments and criticisms of OverDrive are the same. Fun when it's on target, too often it isn't and the other two guys cannot talk about anything other than hockey.
Everything else is a wasteland and I do agree, Landsberg the one who needs a better partner, not the other way around.
Meanwhile, I noticed something and I think this is how the math works.
Look at the total share of afternoon listeners that "sports" has in the market:
11.6 percent when you combine both stations.
Morning shows? 8.0 percent.
So almost 4 percent off of afternoons. It's the only slots I would guess you can compare because people are in their cars in this damned city quite a while for both. That tells you a huge amount right there because about 25-30 percent of the people who listen in the afternoon don't bother listening in the morning. Says it all about the quality of shows and especially Blundell, given a guy who sometimes mails it in in his 60's who broadcasts while many people are already home eating dinner is doing that much better. You can't fool all the people all the time, can you? That's really incredible, and there are just as many options in the afternoon as the morning, and people have become apathetic about it and I'm one of them. Naylor and Landsberg occasionally for me, but haven't given Fan a spin before I get to work in ages.
Wednesday gave us a glimpse of life without Bob on PTS. Marek joined Shannon and Madani to talk puck. Only Shannon talked for 75% of the time Marek was on. His repetitive spoon-deep analysis made me delete the podcast. Scott Moore are YOU listening?
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My neighbour works in the radio industry, 27 years, he is dismissive of, "the book". He states that, "the book", is less relevant today than it was 10 years ago; "ad buys are more negotiable than ever before, no sales rep lets a "buy" walk or shop for rates. So many decisions in radio are now based on $ out, not who might be listening and when." He also alleges that Numeris in Toronto still rely on paper diaries rather than PPMs. So he's very "skeptical" of accurate survey results.
A colleague's son works part-time for Numeris. His son regularly has to call in before his shifts to confirm that there is enough work for his shift; and even then, he's been sent home early due to lack of "work".
I'd gut both rosters….
AM Drive: John Gallagher, let him have creative control, ie, format, co-host & producer.
9-11: Mary Ormsby, smart lady, who knows her sports, give her a solid producer who can
wrangle quality guests.
11-1: Dan Shulman and whomever he deems appropriate.
1-4: Kathryn Humphries & David Amber.
4-7: Mark Hebscher, again, give him creative control, same deal as Gallagher.
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John Gallagher? Da hell….
Ha Ha John Gallagher… Bringing it back from the old school. Love it. always liked the guy, met him a few times he's a lot of fun.
I agree on on a few points Pete.
1. I agree Blundell and Sports don't mix well.
2. The show is awful… One of the big reasons for me is the long update segments. it breaks the show into part 1 Blundell blabbering, part 2 long update… then rince and repeat every 20 minutes. It doesn't lend to good conversation. it's too segragated.
3. Blundell if he does stay on does need someone to bring more out of him, Rusic doesn't do this. i felt Bastl did a great job in the limited time they had together and i actually found the convo to be more free flowing and on topic. Actually found Blundell tolerable.
Here is where I don't fully agree. I don't think rustic is a good host. When he is in the chair with Sammut, Enis or Bastl … he is enconsistent. There were time he and Bastl were great togther really. On Sundays I really enjoy inside the lines. I think Rustic does great with Bastl and Rapp. When he has 2 cohosts it works well. But when he was just with Bastl this past week I wasn't feeling it. I am a huge Bastl fan as everyone here knows I think he did a great job as always… but Rustic wasn't moving the show along or using Bastl at all.
It was simply a 1 man mic hog show and Bastl I'll let you talk at update time. Rusic got caught up on this impending doom of the raptors facing the Cavs thing. (which is a stupid topic in December when the team is winning btw) And he just kept repeating the same point and catch line on repeat. he wouldn't let Bastl. When Bastl tried to chip in Rusic talked over him and cut him off. Rucis even asked Bastl a question and then just answered it him self in a long winded repeat of his previous points. It was really awful.
If the fan is going to make a change to the morning show, I'm all for it.. but I don't want Ruscic in the big chair and certainly not with only 1 cohost.
I really hope bastl will be part of it though,
Steve Kee
This is the radio only information — wondering if more people might be accessing the shows via TV and on phones — and if that is captured in the BBM ratings. I find while I tune in and out of the two sports stations — I cannot, for the life of me, understand how someone can listen for hours. It gets to be repetitive. McCown is still the key for me — he brings a perspective and interesting stories that others have no clue about.
Hey Art…thanks for the response.
Perhaps I poorly worded it, but I sure as heck don't want, nor think, Rusic could handle the big chair. And certainly not in the mornings. What I was trying to imply/get at, is that Rusic is a good radio personality when he is himself on the air. This whole schtick/persona he has to put on to fit in with some edgy Blundell morning show isn't cutting it. It actually makes him sound really bad. So much so it's made me dislike him. He was thrust in a role he never should have been in and should be moved elsewhere where he can be himself talking sports with some other level-headed person. That's where he is best.
I'm indifferent to Bastl because he played a similar role with Richards on TSN. He's another guy I grew to dislike based on the out-of-element image he portrayed. Now that he too has been put in a position where he just has to concentrate on sports primarily, his star is shining through. I don't know if he fits in with the type of show the Fan seems to want in the mornings, but Bastl certainly is a talent the Fan would be smart to utilize as part of their programming, Maybe as Walker's co-host? I don't think one-person radio shows really work anymore.
No just zero gains… TSN 1050 is losing listeners. The Morning Show used to get much better ratings under Richards. TSN never did great but I remember seeing some 2s 3s and even 4s in there numbers book with the old line up.
seeing numbers under 1? Good God save the money and just play the audio of TSN TV, you will probably do at least a 1.0.
I absolutely can't stand Cox (And Simmonds too). i have no use for him what so ever. Having said that I too am annoyed with the if anyone likes this guy he must either work for the same company or be the guy himself garbage.
We all have different opinions. Some people like guys you hate. and some people hate guys you like.
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'I have no use for him what so ever. Having said that I too am annoyed with the if anyone likes this guy he must either work for the same company or be the guy himself garbage.
We all have different opinions. Some people like guys you hate. and some people hate guys you like.'
Bingo, nothing wrong with different opinions, it just gets down to silliness if your only way to add to a debate is 'they must work for Rogers/Bell'!!! Like, really? Is that the best you can offer. What's wrong with intelligent debate, not silly accusations.
Simulcast in Mississauga
The big picture with the latest radio ratings for Toronto is that TSN1050 finished second last amongst all the stations with a dismal 0.5 rating. The FAN's rating was eight times larger in the overall market and the FAN is dominant in the sports radio niche in all time slots. A few people might prefer one host to another between the FAN and TSN1050 but the message of this rating period, just like the last, is very clear and overwhelming; GTA listeners are not interested in TSN1050.
The only reason that Bell/TSN would keep the current format at TSN1050 is that the big cheeses want to maintain a presence in the largest radio market in the country. Fair enough but it has to be embarrassing that TSN could buy beers for every TSN1050 listener and pay for the tab out of petty cash.
I suspect that 2017 will bring major changes to TSN1050, perhaps a complete revamp to complement and enhance TSN1-5's TV programming and audience. I'm not sure exactly how TSN/Bell would go about this but Bell is not afraid to make significant changes if we look at their other properties. And when will the few stars of TSN1050 decide that they are tired of being big fish in a wading pool?
It is interesting that the ratings by time slot demonstrate that in the younger demographic the only show that has made any inroads is Leafs Lunch with Andi Petrillo. In fact, amongst the 18-34 males group, at 5.0 Leafs Lunch is closing in on Hockey Central (6.7). Yes, the roof is literally falling in on the predictable ancients at Hockey Central. I find Petrillo and especially O'Sullivan to have a different take on things; the show is developing into something very good.
Overdrive is, unfortunately for TSN1050, a dog (or an O'Dog). When the boys did Leafs Lunch, it seemed successful. In the new drive time slot, the three amigos sound like unknowledgeable amateurs compared to the King over at the Fan. The old Leafs Lunch bunch in Overdrive is destined to be the Bay City Rollers of Toronto radio, living off nostalgia when the act no longer works.
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More Scott Mac! I don't like Walker, Too arrogant. Thinks he is god's gift to sports. A lot of hot air.
O'Neill knows as much about baseball as McCown knows about hockey. But at least O'Neill watches Jays games. Can't say the same for McCown and the Leafs or the NHL and he anchors the 'Home of Hockey' Network.
Leafs Lunch and Andi P is TERRIBLE!!! How it gets any ratings at all is beyond me
Rick in Barrie
The Overdrive boys in the PM seem to have lost a bit of their magic. They said it last night – maybe they are maturing a bit. They don't have the spark they did with the midday show.
Naylor/Landsberg just don't seem to resonate with fans well. I haven't heard a single person I know say something positive about either in a long, long time. (18-34 demo). I'd also suggest they get stiff competition from regular talk radio from those who are avoiding Blundell & aren't fans of these two.
I'd love to listen to Overdrive longer than 4-5pm in the PM but TSN continues to have serious signal strength issues….north of Hwy 7 that station is practically static by 5pm. Surprising since the rest of the day it comes in clear.
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If you have a data plan with a smartphone, you can listen to any radio station anywhere. iHeartRadio is one app. I use TuneIn. Listening to TSN works out to about 20 MB an hour, so that's 100 MB/week if you only need an hour per night. Less than 1 GB per month if you're using it 2 hours/day on your work commute. I also use an app to closely monitor my data usage.
Having these options makes the commute seem less onerous. TuneIn also has a "driving" screen that makes all the necessary buttons much larger.
Mark R
I looked at Tunein subscriptions and seeing how they compare to the radio ratings
TSN 1050
Naylor Landsberg – 377 followers
Game Day – 270 followers
Leafs Lunch – Negligible as it has Overdrive Episodes
TSN Today – 28 followers
Overdrive – 806 + 2900 (Leafs Lunch)
Total — 4381
Fan 590
Dean Blundell – 415 followers
Jeff Blair – 1000 followers
Hockey Central – 6500 followers
Andrew Walker Show – 629 followers
Prime Time Sports – 6400 followers
Total – 14,944
Now these numbers may not be any good as it doesn't indicate unique subscribers. You could have one person subscribed to all of the shows.
I do listen to 1050 quite a bit while driving. I get it via their website then into my car's speakers on my bluetooth. I used it quite a bit last month when I was working way up north in Markham.
Me too. The sound is so much better over the Internet. Now if only the sports talk content could catch up…
Same goes for podcasts. If TSN were to go to FM, that would help a lot. Or if Bell could offer free streaming for Bell-owned stations…
I didn't realize it was so little (20mb per hour). I'll have to explore that more. Thanks.
Siegel is absolutely terrible, and makes me wonder if OverDrive are tanking on purpose. Hayes is the best host of his generation, and O'Neil makes the show a riot. McLennan adds nothing, and giving his spot to someone like Scott MacArthur who can speak intelligently about baseball would really balance the show and boost the quality of the product.
Never heard of Tunein radio. Just downloaded it. Found Overdrive and clicked on it. Only thing that showed up were all Brian Hayes Episodes. Latest episode is from Sept 12, 2014. When you click on 'more' the episodes just get older. I guess I'll stick to Podcasts. In case you're wondering- Wheeler was sitting in because Hayes, McLennan & O'Neill were on the road to the Beef Baron in London.
Go to Browse and search Local Radio. I have several sports stations listed among my favourites. I tend to shift through different stations throughout the day. Select TSN 1050 and click the green play button. Should start playing, if you're connected to wifi or you have allowed the app to use your data plan.
I also use "Standard" in terms of audio quality.
Another cool feature is when you hit Browse and small car icon appears near the top of the screen. This makes icons more accessible when driving.
I use TuneIn exclusively for streaming — not for podcasts. I have an iPhone so my Apple podcast app suffices for all my podcasting needs.
I don't subject myself to either station as I find US national shows much better listening and informative so I have no programming comments.
The notion of book ratings though in 2016 is preposterous. Thousands of people listen now on podcast and TV simulcast (hundreds if you're TSN), and while you have different advertisers for different platforms, if you're trying to get an idea of who is listening to your show, someone using a pencil and pad isn't going to do it.


THR highlights the most-recorded moments of the performance-packed American Music Awards on Sunday night.
Sunday night's American Music Awards was packed with so many performances, it felt more like a concert than an awards show. Nevertheless, according to TiVo, the top five recorded moments of the night weren't all song and dance, and included a couple acceptance speeches from one particular artist.
1. 8:46pm – Pitbull performs "Timber" duet with Ke$ha.
2. 10:57pm – Taylor Swift wins artist of the year for the third time.
3. 8:56pm – Imagine Dragons wins favorite artist, alternative Rock.
4. 10:27pm – Lady Gaga and R Kelly's presidential performance of "Do What U Want."
5. 8:37pm – Taylor Swift wins the first of four AMA awards for favorite album, country.
ABC's airing of the American Music Awards surged from its 2012 outing. The three-hour kudos jumped 32 percent for a 4.5 rating among adults 18-49 and 36 percent to 12.9 million viewers. The show had a lead-in from America's Funniest Home Videos (1.5 adults), up a tenth from last week, giving ABC an average 3.7 adults rating and 11.4 million viewers for its primetime block.


> Please explain -- *why* do you need multimaster?
>> the two mysql servers in sync whith each other.
>> when one of the servers goes down, the other continue to work.
> If you have "traditional" master-slave and the "master" goes down, the slave will continue to serve the last information it had (at least, until the expire timer goes "boing").
>> always avaliable... that's it nothing complicate.
>> now I coudl succesfully build my own bind RPM for CentOS with mysql backend support.
>>>> thank you for hte thread you pointed me.
>>>> Actaully I do not have performance issue, but I just need DNS multi-master.
>>>> I could succesfully apply mysql-bind patches.
>>>> I have only one zone with few hosts.
>>>>>> seems too way complicate for my porpouse.
>>> A nice way to deal with what Riccardo's needs is to use ISC BIND configured statically (keeps all advantages of a pure BIND system) but from a MySQL database that has web apps for end users to manage their own zone data. BIND was not meant for end users with little to no DNS expertise to manage their RRs. Some middleware is required.
>>> This is not a new concept but developed from pure dynamic websites to ones that "printed" static copies of their pages -now proxies are also used as well as memcache for SQL query caching.
>>> See wikipedia for dns management software.


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Q: Irreducibility of Non-monic Quartic Polynomials in Q[x] Decide whether the following polynomials are reducible or not in the given ring.
$f(x)=5x^4+22x^3+35x^2+47x+15$ in Q$[x]$
$g(x)=2x^4-4x^3-12x^2+14x-2$ in Q$[x]$
I am not sure what method to use to determine irreducibility here. I know, for quadratic and cubic polynomials, the polynomial is irreducible if it has no roots in Q$[x]$. But of course these are quartic polynomials. I cannot use the Eisenstein Criterion because no prime number divides the coefficients of $f(x)$ and the only prime number, 2, that divides the coefficients of $g(x)$ also divides the leading coefficient, which is not acceptable when using the Criterion. I would also want to convert the coefficients of each to modulo 2 so that I could show they are irreducible in F$_2$[x], but this only works for monic functions. Any idea of what I can do?
Thanks.

A: The polynomial $g(x)$ can be written as $2h(x)$ with a monic polynomial $h(x)$ which is irreducible. Since it is monic you can try the different methods. $f(x)$ is obviously reducible since $(x+3)$ is a linear factor.

A: Your $f$ is not irreducible because $-3$ is a root.
As for $g$, first you should divide it by $2$ because it is not primitive (in $\mathbb{Z}[x]$ it is not irreducible, but of course for $\mathbb{Q}[x]$ this is irrelevant); after dividing by $2$, if you reduce mod $2$ you get $x^4 + x + 1$ which is irreducible in $\mathbb{F}_2[x]$ (as is easily checked by trying all possible factors of degrees $1$ and $2$), so $g$ is irreducible.

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Computers Without Boundaries: A Deep Dive Into Ambient Computing
March 16, 2020 by Gary Stevens Share this
"Ambient computing" is actually a catch-all term for several new technologies. These include Internet of Things (IoT) devices, AI-driven devices, and cloud storage solutions that allow previously impossible amounts of data to be stored and processed.
The advantage of looking at these technologies under one term, though, is that it allows us to see the future of marketing more holistically. And that's what we'll look at in this article.
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Telnet Passwords Leaked for Half a Million IoT Devices, Servers, Routers
January 20, 2020 by Joseph Zappa Share this
The breach is particularly significant given the rapid expansion of smart or IoT devices. Given that consumers already struggle to secure basic electronic devices including laptops and smartphones, the Telnet breach indicates how much larger the security risk for personal devices may become in coming years as smart speakers, TVs, and fridges join the legion of devices open to hackers.
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Dispatch from CES: Giant TVs, Obsequious Gadgets, and Artificial People
January 10, 2020 September 3, 2020 by Damian Rollison Share this
I'm fresh from a couple of days wandering the halls of the Consumer Electronics Show, affectionately known as CES — the annual conference that descends upon Las Vegas in January and proffers the latest in technological solutions to improve every aspect of our daily lives. This is my first time attending the world's biggest technology conference, where 4,500 companies this year are vying for the attention of 180,000 attendees, according to my Uber driver.
As I made my way through the crowds at the massive Las Vegas Convention Center and other conference venues, I tried to get a sense of the common themes defining consumer innovation as we begin a new decade.
Retailers Find New Marketing Opportunities with Wearables
December 30, 2019 December 29, 2019 by Stephanie Miles Share this
A recent announcement that Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance are working on an open-source network standard is likely to lead to even more investment in connected devices among retailers. The open-source network that the group is working to develop is supposed to make life easier for IoT hardware vendors and software developers, but it also serves a secondary purpose of assuring retailers investing in connected technology that their budgets aren't being wasted. With a common IoT communication and control standard, smart devices will be even more reliable and seamless to use in the coming years.
"Open source will bring businesses more agility and enable them to process data quickly while simultaneously producing valuable insights," says Heikki Nousiainen, chief technology officer at Aiven, a firm that develops managed cloud service hosting for software infrastructure services.
Companies Are Struggling to Manage IoT Data. Here's Why
The devices around us are getting smarter. From the consumer's perspective, that means refrigerators are sending notifications when the milk is running low, and thermostats are turning down the temperature when there's no movement in the house. Businesses are relying on the data generated by connected devices to improve algorithms and make their existing products even smarter, but collecting and managing large volumes of data is creating a new set of challenges.
Globally, the IoT market is expected to reach $212 billion by the end of this year. With the worldwide number of IoT-connected devices projected to top 43 billion by 2023, the challenges associated with managing large amounts of data in real-time are growing at a rapid pace.
6 Ways Wearable Tech Is Reshaping Retail
December 16, 2019 August 17, 2020 by Stephanie Miles Share this
Rather than being spooked by these new retail engagement strategies, surveys show most consumers are excited by them. Sixty-seven percent of wearables owners say they find dynamic user experiences that vary based on location "useful and exciting."
Here are six examples of strategies that retailers can employ to improve the shopping experience using wearable technology.
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Follow the Money: Will Wearables Inflect in 2020?
December 11, 2019 May 7, 2020 by Mike Boland Share this
Apple is far ahead with Watch and Airpods, which may have sold 3 million units since Black Friday. Google meanwhile acquired Fitbit to buttress its wearables play. Amazon and Microsoft launched wearables lines in the past quarter, and smaller players like Bose and Snap are planting seeds for a wearables future.
There's an underlying driver for this activity that goes back to the perennial analyst exercise of "following the money." This is all about extrapolating product roadmaps based on tech giants' motivations. This is often to future-proof their core businesses or diversify revenue in the face of maturing products.
Connected Consumers Are More Demanding Than Ever – How Retailers Are Adapting
As the omnichannel approach to retail takes off, industry insiders are beginning to wonder whether giving shoppers what they want, when they want it, across any connected device, is causing consumers to develop unrealistic expectations about the types of experiences and services their favorite stores can provide.
How 5 Brands Are Marketing with Smart Home Technology
December 9, 2019 December 9, 2019 by Stephanie Miles Share this
Because marketing through the connected home is still in its infancy, most brands are in the experimental phase. Even though there are plenty of opportunities for connecting with consumers through smart appliances and devices, brands have to be careful in their approach to avoid overstepping boundaries or coming off as "creepy." Regardless, the sheer volume of connected products hitting the market ensures that brands have an unprecedented number of new avenues to reach people inside their own homes.
Here are five innovative connected home marketing strategies being pioneered by brands and retail marketers.
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December Focus: The Connected Consumer
December 2, 2019 December 2, 2019 by Mike Boland Share this
When looking at several interlocking tech trends — wearables, IoT, smart devices, autonomous vehicles — one common thread emerges: our escalating connectivity as humans. All these technologies are increasingly melded with our senses as the computing "abstraction layer" diminishes.
In other words, device interfaces continue to get more intuitive and automatic. That can be seen in the progression of personal computing from UI milestones like the mouse to mobile-centric touch controls. Now, we have biometric tracking on the Apple Watch and ambient alerts to AirPods.
The "connected consumer" will be Street Fight's editorial focus for the month of December.
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Dispatches: Milícias and Police Corruption in Rio's Favelas
A U.S. academic tracks politics, violence and militia squads in Rio's slums.
On the night of May 14, 2008, a reporting team from O Dia, one of Rio de Janeiro's major dailies, was taken captive in the Favela do Batan in the West Zone neighborhood of Realengo by a group of armed men. The reporters were investigating the phenomenon of milícias, which have imposed a brutal form of order on a broad swath of the city's poor neighborhoods since emerging eight years ago as a counterforce against Rio's notoriously violent drug gangs.
But the journalists soon found themselves part of the story. Their captors, including men who were obviously police, beat the reporters and subjected them to electric shocks. The torture sessions were punctuated with a harsh interrogation about the journalists' backgrounds and sources. As far as their captors were concerned, it was the journalists who were guilty of threatening law and order. As O Dia editor Ana Miguez recounted, one of the torturers complained, "We kill ourselves working here, we get shot at by bums so that you can come here and ruin our social project. We aren't bandits."
Maybe not. But that is small comfort to the people of Rio, where even law and order and the need for security in the continent's poorest neighborhoods can prove dangerously counterproductive. The milícias are so firmly established that, until recently, any substantive discussion of political alternatives in many parts of the city was silenced.
The journalists were released by the milícianos with a warning that they would be killed if they ever publicized what happened to them. Two weeks later, the article was published, sparking a genuine effort to curb the groups' power. Until then, the gangs had been assured of benign neglect from Rio's political establishment. Much of their violence was directed against the poor, but with the assault on the media—representatives of the middle class—the political pendulum began to swing dramatically…
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Through the intermediary and participation of the Russian peacekeeping forces stationed in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the bodies of several servicemen who died on the battlefield around the Shusha city were collected.
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On the same day that I accidentally killed one of my hens in the midst of giving her a bath for her infection, I discovered that my all-time favorite chicken had randomly passed away in the evening. She was my only chicken with a name. Phoenix had achieved some fleeting internet fame when she survived a fox attack and was left for dead. I was on vacation at family camp when it happened; the late August full-moon gave the fox the light she needed.
My dog sitter had arrived that morning to walk the dogs. She noticed the disarray in the coop, and on further inspection, discovered the neatly stacked hens in the sleeping quarters that the fox had probably planned to collect later. After the initial shock wore off, we chatted about what to do.
"We can't just leave the dead chickens in the coop," I said to her on the phone, the humidity from the latest heat wave already sinking into the day. I imagined the impending fly invasion to my backyard.
"But I don't know anyone who would come bury dead chickens," I continued, thinking aloud. "Who does someone call in this circumstance?" I was stymied.
She said she didn't know anyone either. There was a pause.
"I usually just do everything myself," she said. I took that as the opening I desperately needed.
I couldn't come home to decomposed chickens. Plus, my dogs would get at them. And I knew dogs could die from eating chicken bones. This situation was getting more and more complicated. Please, please say yes, I silently willed her.
"Well, I guess I could bury them," she said after pausing too long.
"Thank you," I rushed to say, not giving her any chance to change her mind. "I am so grateful," I repeated two or three times.
I was doing some yoga on the basketball court when the phone rang again.
"Megan, the red chicken is still alive." It was the dog sitter.
Damn, I thought to myself. What am I supposed to do about a half-dead chicken?
"Let me call my vet." I didn't get very far. The receptionist said that they "didn't handle chickens" but I could try another one in the next town over. I explained the situation a second time to a receptionist I had never met.
"Yes, we can look at your chicken," she said. "What is the name of the pet?" she asked.
I called the dog sitter back. She was more than happy to bring the chicken to the vet. As I told her 'thank you,' I was secretly adding up the amount of money she would charge me to transport the chicken. She had already wrapped the chicken in a nice blanket and was petting her.
"Alright, well, let me know how it goes when you get there," I said.
An hour later I hadn't heard anything so I called her again.
"The vet agreed that the neck was not broken," the dog sitter told me. "He thinks there is a pretty good chance the hen will make it. I left her there and will visit later," she said.
"You left the chicken at the vet?" I repeated. I decided to call the vet myself.
"Oh, yes, your chicken is doing very well. We have her on oxygen," the receptionist told me.
My brother overheard me on the phone."Your chicken is on oxygen?" he said in the tone that he saves for situations of ultimate disbelief.
I walked back to the area of camp that had a little cell service while trying to think of what to tell the vet and the dog sitter. Just the week before I had spent only fifteen dollars for two pounds of chicken for dinner. Nothing about the situation was making any clear sense.
The dog sitter expected me to save the chicken. What would she think of me if I didn't?What would my brother think of me if I did? I went back and forth. I could save the chicken for the dog sitter so she thinks I am a good person OR let the chicken die so my brother doesn't think I am crazy.
But I wanted to be a good person and I didn't want to be crazy. There was no way to win.
Before she finished, I interrupted her.
"My limit is fifty dollars," I said.
It was the most reasonable amount I could think of in the heat of the moment. I knew it was common for people to pay thousands for their pets. But my chicken wasn't really a pet but, now, the dog sitter had driven the chicken to the vet and I felt an obligation to do something. And now I had the chicken transportation fee to consider.
I called my mother next who lived in a town nearby.
"Can you go pick up my chicken at the vet," I asked her after filling her in, "and just put her in the bathtub until I get home?" I only had a few more days at camp. I figured she could handle things until then and then I could extricate my dog sitter from the situation who was planning to visit the chicken later that afternoon. At least that would be a small savings.
Phoenix lasted in the bathtub just fine under my mom's doting care but my father called me at camp the following day.
"Dad, she isn't sick, she is injured," I said, hoping I could convince him not to kick out the chicken.
Two days later, when I finally did make it home, Phoenix was in the cat carrying cage on my doorstep. She still couldn't lift her head but she was eating the small drops of soft food my mom squirted into her beak three times a day.
Phoenix miraculously recovered after about a month of rehabilitation. By then I had acquired my next flock of chicks and when I set her in the coop to re-acclimate her to life outside the garage, she sat on top of their cage like she was their actual mother hen. By then Phoenix really did feel like a pet.
So finding Phoenix, randomly dead on the same day that I accidentally killed one of the other chickens from the ill-conceived bath, was startling. She had turned out to be my best egg-layer for nearly two years after the fox slaughter, even though chickens often don't lay after traumatizing experiences. She was hardy in every way. It was as if she was as shocked as me that I had killed one of her flock. There was just no other explanation.
Could be Megan. Could be. I spent $700 on a a garden irrigation system for three cucumbers if that makes you feel good.
Larry that does make me feel better…..
Love you back!!! Some things are only funny in retrospect, right? At the time they are just so muddled….
Love everything about this story. Life and death and the saving of chickens are like the surprising responses that come out of our mouths, never predictable.


These Healthy Peach Muffins taste so delicious!
Peaches and Cream Muffins made with fresh, frozen or canned peaches and honey, cream cheese, and all-bran cereal.
If you are looking for a great muffin recipe with high fiber and fruit, you have found a choice one here!
Sink your teeth into these delectable peach muffins, and you get the sweet taste of peaches and cream cheese combined to take your taste buds for a ride!
** or another whole grain cereal that contains very high fibre with no sugar added.
Drain the canned peach slices and cut the peach slices into smaller pieces.
If using fresh peaches peel, pit, slice and chop the peach slices into smaller pieces.
If using frozen peaches, allow the peach slices to thaw slightly and then chop them into smaller pieces. Set aside.
Cut the cream cheese into small cubed pieces.
In a medium size bowl beat lightly beat the eggs with a fork.
Add the milk, honey, melted margarine (or butter), lemon zest (optional) and the cereal and stir well to combine.
In a large bowl combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and the salt.
Make a "well" in the center of the dry ingredients and fold in the cereal mixture stirring just until combined. Do not over-mix.
Fold in the prepared peach pieces and the prepared cream cheese cubes.
Spoon the muffin batter into a greased or paper-lined muffin tray, filling about 3/4 full.
Bake at 400° F for about 15 -20 minutes or until golden brown.
Remove from oven and allow muffins to cool on a wire rack.
ENJOY these healthy Peaches 'N' Cream Muffins!
These homemade muffins freeze well for up to several weeks.


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Using MongoDB to replace the sessions table?
tracy — Sun, 02/21/2010 - 14:48
Maintaining session information has long been the bane of the web developer. Many web platforms put that information into a MySQL table, something that can work decently well for small to medium sites. The problem is that as the site's popularity grows, so do the number of database entries and hits. Sites that aren't as good about purging the sessions table of stale entries are going to see increasingly slower lookup times at a time when the number of hits are increasing.
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Jamie Oliver's Wish: Teach Every Child About Food
tracy — Sat, 02/13/2010 - 17:14
The 2010 TED Prize winner is Jamie Oliver, a British chef and an advocate for better food education, particularly in schools. While his entire talk is quite interesting, two points are of particular interest: why school breakfasts and lunches are not as healthy as the could be and how little much of the population knows about cooking.
First, he notes that the people on the front lines in the school districts across the country should not be the target of the public's ire. For the most part, the cooks, servers and even food service managers are working within constraints which make it impossible for them to serve high-quality, nutritious food to our children. Instead of them being in charge of what is served and how it is prepared, the power often lies with bean counters and, although unmentioned in the speech, farm policy. The decisions are based more often on cost rather than nutrition and taste.
What does this mean? First, to keep costs down, much of what schools serve is determined by the free food available from the federal government. Which foods are available generally is governed by food politics and distribution system realities rather than food quality and nutrition. Additionally, the labor needed to prepare and serve the meals to our children can be quite expensive. Thus, schools outsource a fair amount of this labor in the form of processed foods from food manufacturers. Since the food is then designed to be easily manufactured and to last on shelves, rather than for its nutritional value, the children don't get the best quality food. Without financial support from the community, these two factors lead to fewer fresh fruits and vegetables being available to our children..
Another interesting tidbit is the number of generations we have gone where people do not learn how to cook as they grow up. One of the people he spotlighted is a mother of young children and she is part of the third generation of her family who did not learn these essential life skills at home. I've been thinking about this very topic for the last few months. While I didn't know exactly how far in the past it went, I knew that there were a number of young women in my grandparents generation who got married and started their own households without knowing how to cook. I'm guessing this trend is part of what fueled the popularity of cookbooks like "The Joy of Cooking" and the back to basics movement. Although I'm not sure why we went away from home cooked meals, my guess is that it was a confluence of events involving better canning techniques, development of refrigeration and freezing, the increasing women's educational and professional opportunities during the early 1900s, and the entrance of large numbers of women into the workforce during World War II.
Somehow, we need to find a way to get nutritious meals into our bodies and fully understanding these issues will help us get there. As a country, we need to find a way to emphasize food quality over cost for our school children and we need to teach our population how to cook. Taking these two steps would go a long way towards alleviating the obesity problem.
Playing with EC2 and Catalyst
I am changing jobs this February. One of the main differences is that it will mean less work with Drupal, but I am really looking forward to working with the Perl Catalyst framework. In hopes of getting a head start on learning this new system, I bought a book from Amazon and created a custom AMI on Amazon.
Using Mollom to Control Spam on Your Site
I can't remember exactly how long I've been using Mollom to control spam on my website, but I'm guessing it was pretty soon after they released the product. For those who don't know, Mollom was found in 2008 by two friends who met while they were university students.
DevDays Boston
tracy — Thu, 10/08/2009 - 17:45
I spent yesterday attending a great one-day developers conference run by Joel Spolsky. This was a real treat for me, since instead of giving up a weekend day to the cause, I able to go during the work week. Besides the excuse to get away from a computer for a few hours, I'm also quite a fan of stackoverflow.com and the stackoverflow podcast.
The day started as these things often do for me, a woman helping to run registration was excited to see another woman attending the event. What really made me smile though is that she got into a competition with the guy next to her over who could find my last name first. She won through the clever use of a binary search algorithm.
Overall, I really enjoyed the relatively wide range of talks. The talks by Ned Batchelder and John Resig were of the most interest as I'm more of a dynamic language person and I do a lot of web work. The ASP.Net MVC was interesting in that I really like the separation of code MVC supports/enforces but the presentation was, perhaps, a bit too long and detailed for the audience. The iPhone presentation had a few great nuggets of information, but I'm don't really fancy myself an iPhone programmer (for now) and so my attention waned a bit there. In my opinion, the two best presentations were done by Miguel and Joel. I can't quite put my finger on why I liked Miguel's so much. He was really funny and a bit more casual, more like listening to a story than watching a conference presentation. The fact that things didn't always go right just added to the atmosphere and good fun.
While I enjoyed the conference overall, there were a few things I didn't like. First, the venue isn't top on my list. The chairs were really uncomfortable, especially for the long hours of sitting and were probably placed a bit too close together for developers. Also, there wasn't a lot of space to break out and talk if you weren't interested in a particular presentation. Beyond the venue, there was one thing that really annoyed the heck out of me. During the waning minutes of the break, the music would get cranked up and the lights would get turned off. My assumption is this was done to discourage conversation while still giving a warning period, but the music was way too loud, abruptly ending conversations with a good minute or so left, and ended up giving me a headache in the end.
The last item is a bit of a complicated subject. I feel Joel might have gone a little overboard in the video and in his keynote. While I'm an adult and have been known to use a double entendre or two or three, I definitely felt a male bias in the content. On one hand, this makes total sense as most of the audience was male and most of the jokes were pretty funny. In fact, I don't think my issue is with the jokes that he made, it's just the number of times he made them. It's a bit like family guy where they stay with the really bad/disgusting/uncomfortable joke for a few seconds too long just to make the audience a tad uncomfortable or to emphasize it. I definitely didn't feel unwelcome, but, perhaps, a bit misunderstood.
All that said, I hope that there is one again next year and kudos to Joel for organizing such an event.
Silas Davis - 1930 Census
tracy — Fri, 07/17/2009 - 20:13
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Elopement of William Hamin and Mrs. Simon Relyea
William Hamin, a harness maker at Milton, and Mrs. Simon Relyea of the same place, eloped the past week. Hamin left a wife and three children, while Mrs. Relyea, who has been twice married, left a son and husband. Both were caught at Fishkill.
1891 New Paltz Times
Relyea
Marriage of Anna Popelvas and Fred Miller
Miss Anna Grace Popelvas of Poughkeepsie and Fred Miller of New Paltz were married in New Paltz on Sunday by Justice Wm. H. Atkins.
3-20-1914 Independent
Mildred E Abramson Married to Frederick Miller
Mildred Estelle Abramson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Abramson of Pencil Hill, New Paltz, became the bride of Frederick Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Miller of South Ohioville Road, New Paltz at a double ring ceremony on Saturday, June 25, 1955 at 4:00 p.m. in the New Paltz Methodist Church. Reverend Willett Porter officiated.
The Babes Get Married
In Highland, March 31, by O. P. Carpenter, Esq.
John J Miller, aged 18 years, and Rachel Elizabeth Davis, aged 15 years, both of Lloyd.
When they appeared before his Honor, Justice Carpenter, demurred, but Miss Davis said she was bound to be married, and if he didn't do the job, some one else would. After the ceremony, they departed, happy as two children would be over a lot of molasses candy. Miss D. was dressed in a neat calico dress, while her affianced had some how outgrown his wearing apparel.


Digital Proctor Becomes a TCCIA 2012 Sponsor!
We are pleased to announce that Digital Proctor will be a silver level sponsor at our 2012 conference. Digital Proctor was initially founded to help combat cheating in online tests. Working with their academic partners, they developed three unique tools to help with: a) verifying student identity in online or hybrid courses b) rooting out cases of blatant collusion, and c) addressing a new, pervasive form of plagiarism they call 'Plagiarism 2.0'. Digital Proctor's uses a unique, data rich platform allows for other applications as well, such as helping institutions detect nefarious financial aid fraud schemes. Their latest pet project is using their data set to help improve student retention rates via an early intervention system designed for students whom are falling behind.
People who use energy but do not pay attention to many things about this is someone who does not care about the state of the earth. There are many things to be considered properly.


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class TagRequest extends FormRequest
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    /**
     * Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
     *
     * @return array
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    public function rules()
    {
        $rules['name']         = 'required';
        $rules['slug']         = 'required|min:2|alpha_dash';
        $rules['locale']       = 'required';
        return $rules;
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     * Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
     *
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It's amazing the difference stripping color from a photo can make. Most of the pictures I take are in color but I'm gaining an appreciation for black and white. When I see a photo in black and white, I get this feeling- like awe and excitement.


Plumbr Server, responsible for collecting data from Agents and processing the data.
Notice that installing Plumbr Server is only necessary when your company policy restricts sending data from your JVMs to external SaaS services. Installing Plumbr Server on your premises is a way to ensure that no information leaves your network perimeter. In case your company policy does allow using external SaaS services, we recommend to install only the Plumbr Agent and connect to our SaaS server instead.
Plumbr Server embeds several different infrastructure elements (Kafka, Druid, Jetty, MySQL, etc). To simplify the installation & update of the infrastructure we have built the Server installation on top of Docker containers. Installing the containers is done via a single Docker Compose file.
So, installing the Plumbr Server consists of preparing the environment to run Docker containers and launching Docker Compose project supplied by Plumbr.
CPU. Plumbr Server can run on any modern server class machine. Performance comparable to Amazon EC2 R4.xlarge or M5.xlarge instance with 4 vCPUs would be adequate.
Memory. Plumbr Server requires a machine with at least 20G of RAM. 24G is recommended for larger installations.
Disk storage. Depends on the number of monitored JVMs and their activity. The more traffic for Plumbr to monitor the more storage will be needed. On moderately active JVM up to 16GB per JVM per month or, taking into account the 90-day data retention, around 50GB per JVM per year.
Also, please make sure Plumbr Server is deployed into a dedicated machine. Do not install Plumbr Server to any workstations/laptops or next to any other machines deployed on the same (virtual) machine.
Plumbr Server has no special software requirements apart from the ability to run Docker Community Edition (CE) and Docker Compose. Please consult their respective documentation for further information: https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/ and https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/. You will need at least Docker version 1.12 and Docker Compose version 1.10. The most tested and recommended OS is Ubuntu Linux 16.04.
Unzip received plumbr-server.zip file in the machine Plumbr Server is going to be installed.
Change the active directory into "plumbr-server" folder. We will refer to this folder as PLUMBR_SERVER_HOME for the rest of this document.
This will download the required versions of all Docker images for various parts of the Plumbr Server and then will launch the corresponding Docker containers. The first run can take around 10 minutes to have all components up and running. During this time, the Plumbr Server might already be accessible, but not functioning correctly.
you are able to log in using the same username & password combination that was used to download the Plumbr Server from https://app.plumbr.io.
Plumbr Server is now fully functional. You can now proceed in installing the Agents to JVMs you wish to monitor and making sure the Agents are connecting to the Server you just installed (specified in plumbr.properties file next to the Agent).
Plumbr Server uses MySQL database to store reference data, such as user information, alert policies and individual root causes detected in your applications.
Plumbr Server uses Apache Kafka to store probe data that Plumbr Agents monitoring your JVMs collect and send to the Server. The same Kafka instance is used for various inter-process communication between Plumbr Server parts.
Plumbr uses Druid data store to aggregate time-series information to present to you in Plumbr Portal.
Lookup service is a supporting service for querying data from Druid.
Apache Zookeeper is used by Kafka and Druid to coordinate their job.
They perform a 2-staged processing of data received from Plumbr Agents to extract root causes, evaluate their impact and prepare data to be displayed in Portals' UI.
This is a web application that you will use the most to browse the data from all monitored JVMs and browsers and to see the details of the unhealthy transactions detected by Plumbr Agents.


Azure Functions is a great solution for building cloud-based "serverless" functions that run small and effiecient pieces of code to fill a wide array of automation / develpoment tasks. Right now, one of the biggest asks from my customers are ways to efficiently maintain, monitor, and manage their Azure Functions… Application Insights is a great tool that fits this purpose. Recently, new preview features relating to Azure Function and Application Insights Integration have been released as a public preview. This solution is extremely promising and useful even in it's preview state!
We can also take a "build-it-yourself" route to monitor Azure Functions with Application Insights.
I wanted to write a post quickly summarizing some options available to monitor Azure Functions utilizing Application Insights. There are a good deal of Wikis, Github Repos, and Documents coming out on the subject but I wanted to summarize my findings (as of MAY 2017) in an actual blog post to help out others looking for a solution.
In April 2017, Microsoft released a preview of direct integration between Azure Functions and Application Insights. This solution involves having an existing Application Insights Workspace and adding a few settings to your Function App. Once completed, many different sets of data will automatically start transferring from your Azure Functions into your Application Insights Workspace.
However, please know that there is a huge caveat here, this solution is currently in PREVIEW and subject to breaking changes!
This is a preview feature and may have breaking changes before we GA it. Use this in production with caution. We don't expect any API breaking changes (maybe data changes), but we are not yet 100% sure.
Keep this mind, and be prepared for changes…that being said, once you enable this functionality you will get a TON of useful data into Application Insights.
Exception - Log Data for Exception Events - GREAT for Debugging as you can really dig into the Exception Object itself, NOT just a text string noting that "Something Broke"!
What can I do with all this data this?
Put simply, Application Insights is PACKED with features, you can really tell it was built from the ground up BY developers, FOR Developers. Besides having a number of dashboards, analytic engines, and other ways to VIEW the data, we can even trigger alerts and events based on the data. This enables some interesting scenarios for maintaining and monitoring your Azure Functions.
That about wraps it up for the Official Preview of Azure Functions with Application Insights. Even though it is just a preview there are a ton of great features for just a few seconds of configuration!
Build it Ourselves! : Using the Application Insights DLLs to get Application Insights Methods in your Azure Functions!
One of the great features of Azure Functions is that we can utilize our own packages or NuGet to add the functionality of external libraries to our functions. In the following examples, we are using the Application Insights Core Telemetry API to send custom events, metrics, and telemetry to application insights.
I want to give full credit to this method to:Christopher Anderson a PM for Azure at Microsoft, he even has a github repo with great examples and documentation of this method to get you started!
Start using the Application Insights Core Telemetry API in your Functions!
You wouldn't think I would do a blog post and script PowerShell functions right???
This process is very simliar to the above example, but in this case I am going to UPLOAD the Application Insights to my Function App and "Import" the functionality of the Application Insights DLL into to my function.
One Last (Awesome) Thing… OMS!
So having all this data in Application Insights is Great! We have lots of great ways to view / parse many different data types from our Azure Functions, and we even setup some alerting functionality, great!
This will allow you to fire off emails, runbooks, alerts, and all sorts of methods based on your Azure Function Data.


This Single Family listing is disposed in GRIFFIN, Georgia on street: 411 LEOLA DRIVE. The Area of Single Family is 1268SF.The Single Family listing includes 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. This property was published on HOLDERHOMES.COM in Mar 20, 2018 and updated on Sat 02 Jun, 2018.The home was built in 1968 year.
Alternate City Name or City Alias is Griffin. The city region is South. Division - South Atlantic. Area County name is Spalding. Area GEO position (Lat/Long): 33.20670000/-84.23340000. Average Households: 8,584. Average Income per Household is $41,957.
Population Details: 15,909 White populace count. 4,956 count of Black populace. 248 Hispanic populace count. 182 Asian populace count. 5 Hawaiian population count. 53 Indian population number. 87 Other population number. Medium Age is 36.8 years old.
DISCLAIMER: All info above regarding Single Family property located on 411 LEOLA DRIVE, GRIFFIN, GA 30224 was got from sources deemed reliable, however HOLDERHOMES.com can't guarantee that details about listing (like agent contact information, price, status and facts) are correct because this information can be changed or deleted without warning. To get detailed info about current listing please contact with listing Agent or with real estate Owner.


Our city is brimming with talented artists, and we're so thrilled they can share their gifts with all of us by beautifying Fort Wayne. We're anxiously awaiting the next public art installment at 840 S. Calhoun!
Learn more about the wonderful Art This Way project here, and check out the Fort Wayne Public Art Map here.
And, come shop these looks and so! much! more! at The FIND in #DTFW.


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Esparza says the word Chicano is a way to say I'm an American.
"Back then Chicano students, Latino students weren't encouraged to go to college; they weren't encouraged or told that they could be professionals or that they can achieve anything in life besides being a worker," said Esparza.
The film portrays the March 5, 1968 protest lead by East L.A. students who were demanding equality, education, and change.
"Unfortunately the response of the school district back then was to send the police to beat us up, arrest us, call us criminals when what we wanted was an education," Esparza said.
Esparza was one of the students arrested during the demonstration. He faced 45 years in prison, all because he wanted to take action.
"There's been progress, but there's a lot more work to do," said Esparza.
Work that Esparza is bringing to the Latino community in North Las Vegas, a much-needed movie theater with a 70-foot screen and luxury seating.
"I'm here to bring jobs to promote education to promote art films, Latino films, Spanish language films, foreign films, the blockbuster Hollywood films; we are going to bring culture," Esparza said.
Culture that he believes will bring change to this neighborhood.
"I committed my life to education and to opportunities for everybody and in particular Latinos," Esparza said. "Our commitment is you have a future, you have rights; you can achieve and do in life what you set yourself out to do."
The 14 screen movie theater is expected to open around Christmas and will be the sixth location for Maya Cinemas North America, Inc. The other theaters are located in California.


Rockza Music Edition, Tokyo, 2016.
Milan: G. Ricordi & C., 1925. Plate P.R. 439.
See the errata/misprints file under Other below.
Milan: G. Ricordi, 1925. Plate 119882, 119877.
A helpful table on how to deal with the brass parts, especially the Buccine and its optional replacements, can be found here (last visited 4 August 2016, archived here). Grammophone (= twittering of birds) part missing.
Milan: G. Ricordi & C., 1925.
Covers Milan: G. Ricordi & C., 1925. Plate P.R. 439 and P.R. 207.
While public domain even in the EU, this work remains under copyright in the USA. Registered under E609687 on 16 April 1925; renewed under R109677 on 1 April 1953 by Elsa Respighi as widow.